Uzbekistan's appeal to leave the CSTO and issue the creation of emergency response forces will be discussed at the summit of the organisation in Moscow on Wednesday, RIA Novosti quotes CSTO Secretary General Nikolai Bordyuzha as saying.
In late June, Uzbekistan sent a note to the CSTO Secretariat to suspend its participation in the organisation.
"The CSTO meeting will consider Uzbekistan's appeal to withdraw from the organisation, improvement of military cooperation and a key issue, the establishment of emergency response forces," Bordyuzha said following a meeting of defence and foreign ministers and secretaries of security councils of the CSTO member states. During the meeting it was also decided that the next joint meeting of the Council of Defence and Foreign Ministers of the CSTO and Committee of Secretaries of Security Councils of the CSTO member countries will be held in Bishkek in 2013.
Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Tajikistan remain as CSTO member states after the suspension of Uzbekistan's membership.
The Collective Security Treaty Organisation was established based on the Collective Security Treaty, signed on May 15, 1992 by the CIS member countries.